The Obama administration has stopped using the term exchanges to describe part of the healthcare law because the word doesnt translate into Spanish, an official said Thursday. Anton Gunn, director of External Affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), said the rebranding of the insurance exchanges as "marketplaces" was geared toward Spanish speakers who will use the system. "We´re going to use the word ´marketplace´ because it actually makes sense to people," Gunn said at a conference in Washington, D.C. " ´Exchange´ doesn´t translate to anything in Spanish, but ´marketplace´ does."

“We´re going to use the word ´marketplace´ because it actually makes sense to people,” Gunn said at a conference in Washington, D.C. “ ´Exchange´ doesn´t translate to anything in Spanish, but ´marketplace´ does.””

I am glad hussein is so sensitive to the needs of the foreigners like himself.

The original term in Hillary Care was “health care COLLECTIVES”. That REALLY didn’t play well, so they called them “health care exchanges”. Now they’ve changed it again. As a former teacher of mine used to say: “No matter how you slice it, it’s still baloney.”

Didn’t this a$$wipe state “You better be smart and have your children learn Spanish?”

When I went to Japan/Okinawa/Philippines etc in 1957 majority of people WE had contact with spoke ENGLISH or at least enough English to make sure MY/OUR money went from my pocket to theirs.

Now if a business is in a “Spanish” neighborhood, it may behoove it to have a Spanish speaking person or person on board.

BUT that should be a business decision. OUR GOVERNMENT should NOT be encouraging ‘these’ people. If you can’t read a document, hire a translater. An enterprising person in ‘your’ language group will probably set up shop.

I can’t see me going to court in say Iran or Cuba, the reigning powers PROVIDING me with a FREE LAWYER and TRANSLATOR.

The ONLY division of OUR Government that should be using/speaking a language different than English is the Immigration Department.

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